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My problem with this approach is that it's a zero sum proposition. The
only growth is by taking existing marketshare from something else. It
then becomes a price issue. I'm cheaper, I win. Tomorrow, you're
cheaper, I loose. We're suffering under that model with IT outsourcing
to India now.
>This is what sells in the Linux world. Linux is still
>mostly about servers, not apps... so it makes sense that
>the tradeshow focuses on admin tools.
Which is why my company went to the Gardner conference in Las Vegas a
little while ago and the consensus from the Fortune500 CIOs was that
there's little real advantage for converting an enterprise to Linux
aside from running a DB or web server stuff.
